PEACE MOVEMENT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22719, 4 May 1937, Page 14

PEACE MOVEMENT

BRITAIN .AND AMERICA NECESSITY FOR ALLIANCE IMPORTANCE TO PACIFIC If the British Empire and the United States were to form nn alliance against war they would be able to prevent it for the next 50 years, according to Briga-dier-General H. W. Lloyd, who arrived from Sydney by the Monterey yesterday. A distinguished soldier, and now a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Brigadier-General Lloyd lias come to New Zealand as the representative of a movement known as British-American Co-opera-tion. which aims at bringing the two countries together in the interests of world peace.

Movemont in Australia Brigadier-General Lloyd said the movement was very active in Australia, and it had made people realign that both New Zealand and Australia were very vulnerable in case of complications in Europe. There was a gradual realisation both in the United States and Great Britain, and peculiarly enough, last of all in Australia, that, although people talked about the horrors of war, it was in the hands of the English-speaking nations to prevent it. "If the United States and Great Britain and her Dominions form an alliance against war, they can prevent it for the next 50 years," said Briga-dier-General Lloyd. "It is no use talk* ■ing against war —it is in their hands to keep peace and liberty for civilisation." "The movement started rather quietly in Australia, but has become electric in its effect," he added. "Even America in a most unexpected manner has realised that it is the only solution of a most difficult problem." Support of Mr. Savage

Brigadier-General Lloyd said the chairman of t-lie movement was Sir Henry Braddon, M.L.C., and its aims had the support of the Prime Minister of Australia and the Premiers of every State. In Australia the main work consisted of publicity and getting active organisations to realise the value of British-American co-operation. The Prime Minister of New Zealand, Mr. Savage, had been very quick to realise just what the movement meant to the Dominion, and had been possibly one of the most active workers in his efforts to bring about an alliance to preserve pence in the Pacific for many years to come. Brigadier-General Lloyd, who has been a member of the Legislative Assembly since 1929. served at GuHipoli and in Franco and Belgium with tho Royal Australian Field Artillery during the Great War, and was director of artillery in 1920.